Mount Emei

Yellowstone is one of the largest known volcanoes in the world and the largest volcanic system in North America. The volcano is found above an intra-plate hot spot that has been feeding the magma chamber for at least 2 million years. The giant caldera is the product of a large-scale collapse of the crust after 3 ultra-plinain or super volcano eruptions, large explosive events that erupt several hundreds to few thousands of cubic km of magma. These eruptions took place 2.1, 1.3 and 0.64 million years

The Capulin Volcano interestingly enough, is apart of what's known as the Raton-Clayton volcanic field (RCVF), a collected scattering of other volcano's that stretch well over 7,000 square miles. Located in Northeastern New Mexico, the Capulin lies dormante, although some believe extinct, since it's last volcanic activity more than 60,000 years ago. Capulin underwent a rather large eruption that formed its current 1000ft cinder cone shape, which gave way to "a number of small lava flows and cinder

climbers carry the correct equipment for the climb to Mount Everest. The clothing that climbers will need has to be breathable material. If the material is not breathable, the suit traps the sweat inside the climber’s suit making the climber cold. The equipment has to be up to date and reliable. If the equipment is unreliable, then the climber has a high chance of risking his life. The climber’s safety is extremely important in climbing Mount Everest. Anything can happen on the mountain, so it is

In 79 CE the ancient city of Pompeii was subjected to the famous catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The city was mostly destroyed and buried under a deep layer of volcanic ash in the aftermath of the eruption. Although a tragic event, the site has become an unprecedented archaeological goldmine in the sense that many significant artifacts were very well preserved. The preservation of the city has provided archaeologists and historians a greater insight of the everyday life of an ancient civilization

It is called Mount Ontake. Mount Ontake is a volcano in Japan that has an elevation of 10,062’. Mount Ontake is a Stratovolcano. This means it has both lava and volcanic ash inside of it. Mount Ontake is 200 km away from Tokyo. It's geographic location is Gifu and Chūba Region. And Tokyo has a population of 13.35 million people. Mount Ontake’s last eruption was in 2014. Mount Ontake was a very popular tourist attraction and hikers came all the time. Before October 1979 Mount Ontake was considered

Into Thin Air tells the story of the tragedy where in 1996, several climbers died on the slopes of Mt. Everest. This was all witnessed by Jon Krakauer, a journalist and one of the climbers who reached the summit that year. Krakauer and the team he climbs with becomes separated through a series of accidents and a change in weather resulting in five teammates dead. Scott Fischer leads an expedition as well, and in that expedition he also loses climbers on the storm, including himself. Krakauer narrates

city and its people within less than a day. Pompeii disappeared from the surface of the earth for the next 1,500 years as the land around Vesuvius became uninhabitable from more and more eruptions. How was Pompeii discovered? What would happen if Mount Vesuvius never

In the article "Mount Vesuvius" it starts with everyone thinking that it was a beautiful day, till the mountain would erupt. But mt. vesuvius is no mountain it is a volcano, a very deadly volcano. Even though this volcano did not show very many signs of erupting it still did that day. I chose this article because it has a lot of detail so I can write more about this article. Almost everyone died that day in Pompeii because there was no way to escape. The terrible effects that this volcano caused

much the same as Pompeii was at the time of the eruption. (Whipps, 2007) The 24th August began just as every other day for the citizens of Pompeii. However the warning of an earthquake sixteen years earlier did not warn them of the incoming danger. Mount

When thinking about volcanic outcrops, one generally thinks of islands and plate boundaries such as the northwestern coast of the United States, Hawaii, or New Zealand. However, 1.4 billion years ago, super volcanoes characterized the Midwestern United States. Today, the Midwest is known for its’ rather simple “layer cake geology.” The Midwest is a part of the North American Craton, meaning that it has remained relatively stable for the past 600 million years. Thus, a volcanic field is definitely